PRESENTED! our presentation on the Indus River beginning of class:)
Mesopotamia-
GEOGRAPHY:
- means between the rivers
- Tigris and Euphrates river
- hill and plains with rivers and streams
- Marshy and wide flat lands in the south
- Fertile land from streams, rivers and floods
- The Fertile Crescent-Iraq Syria Lebanon Cyprus Jordan Palestine Kuwait Sinai Peninsula and Northern Mesopotamia
- Droughts happened very often
- Farms didn't ever know when to plant so they could actually have a yield
- Irrigation canals were built in 6000 B.C.
- workers controlled and cleaned the canals
- Resources came from Mud and other Natural things
- No mountains, forests, or natural barriers
CULTURE:
- Gods were important
- Gods involved music
- over 3000 gods
- Hunting was very popular along with Boxing and wrestling
- Girls were raised to be women of the house and not to act as individuals
HISTORY:
- Constant warfare and shifting empire
- Babylon the capital built on on the Euphrates
- The two rivers flow south into the Persian Gulf
CITIES:
- 4500 B.C. settlements started on the two rivers and emerged there
- Sumer was the first Civilization in Mesopotamia
- Had temples to honor gods of their cities
- Eridu, Bad-Tibria, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak were the first five City-States
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